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🗓️ 5 December 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello, SFIA audio listeners. In this month's Nebula exclusive, big alien theory, |
0:05.2 | we're asking the reason alien civilizations might be rare is because most aliens are huge. |
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0:30.9 | In the grim darkness of the far future, |
0:33.7 | there will be only bureaucracy. |
0:50.0 | Music There will be only bureaucracy. A few years back we took a look at Alien First Contact Scenarios, and we came up with |
0:54.9 | nine scenarios those might fall into, though fundamentally you've got three basic forms |
0:59.8 | that can take. |
1:01.2 | They come to us, we come to them, or we bump into each other out there. |
1:06.1 | Today we'll be focused on that first one, and specifically when they're trying to contact |
1:10.3 | us as opposed to us simply to contact us, as opposed |
1:11.4 | to us simply noticing they exist, as would be the case with picking up some signal not |
1:16.0 | intended for us or some trace of their existence. |
1:19.7 | This doesn't mean they're necessarily landing in full view of the public with some saucer |
1:23.5 | that discourages little green men, indeed as we'll see today, that's not a very likely |
1:28.2 | first contact scenario, and if they did land, we'd likely expect the ship to disgorge something |
1:33.8 | that looked quite human, as in many cases that would be the most logical thing to do. |
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